“We want respect and dignity, and we have an opportunity to do better in this country, and that’s why we’re fighting.” Immigrants move to the United States from all over the world for more opportunities, better education, and a better life for their families. Throughout the years, immigrants have been coming into the United States either by their own free will or by being forced to flee their native country. There is history of deportation, people being threatened at work for being undocumented, and children being sent to foster care. Immigrants have been crossing the border and entering the United States illegally from different places for many years. Some were forced and others decided to move to get a better opportunity of …show more content…
They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. We will build a great wall along the southern border. But you have people coming in, and I’m not just saying Mexicans, I’m talking about people that are from all over that are killers and rapists and they’re coming into this country.” Due to this, without knowing facts, people discriminate those who are undocumented. In Washington, on September 16, marchers directed their chants to Trump because he pledged to build a border wall, make the Mexican government pay for it, and vowed that anyone in the country illegally will be deported. “American Action Forum, a center-right policy institute led by former CBO director Douglas Holtz-Eakin, estimated it would take between $100 billion and $300 billion to arrest and remove all undocumented immigrants residing in the country, a process that we estimate would take 20 years.” The removal of all undocumented people will shrink the U.S. workers by 6.4 percent, which means “the U.S. economy would be nearly 6 percent smaller. That works out to a loss of $1.6 trillion in lost wages, spending and other economic activity.” It wouldn’t be fair for taxpayers to pay for all the deportation that could be made, when they could use that money for more important